If you’re a regular visitor to Standard Issue, you won’t need telling that we’re lucky enough to have a cracking team of contributors who we love dearly. We thought it was about time we let them introduce themselves properly. Let’s hear it for Sarah Hendrickx.

Do you tell your kids they’re beautiful? Is it reinforcing the age-old social conditioning that looks matter when other traits are so much more important? Hazel Davis takes a good hard look at the dilemma.

It’s Be Late For Something Day – yeah, it’s a thing – which we thought was a good enough excuse to talk timekeeping. Is being late rudeness, bad luck or good old-fashioned optimism? Hazel Davis and Suze Kundu share their views.